Commentary Communism is, in many ways, a cult, and a dangerous one at that. In China, to this day, the cult of Mao still carries significant weight. Across the country, young people are still drawn to the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a vicious cult led by Xi Jinping. Meanwhile in America, wokeism has formed into a cult of its own. Like communism, it threatens to destroy the very fabric of American society. The writer Max Funk calls the woke movement a “new religion,” comparing it to a tidal wave ripping “through every facet of western culture, shaping and redefining society.” The writer Andrew Sullivan famously described wokeism as “a religion whose followers show the same zeal as any born-again Evangelical.” Meanwhile, linguist John McWhorter, one of wokeism’s biggest critics, has labeled the movement, “profoundly religious” in nature. In “Woke Racism: How a New Religion Has Betrayed Black America,” due for …